How to Not Know There Are 50,000 Bees Living in Your Ceiling

A woman in Elmhurst, New York, recently discovered she had 50,000 roommates. Really annoying ones that kept buzzing around and never had the rent on time. They were bees. Fifty thousand bees. They had made themselves at home in Frieda Turkmenilli's ceiling. They'd become so comfy that they had even started making honey.

She had seen a couple of bees around her apartment over the past few weeks, but nothing alarming. Her neighbors, on the other hand, were overwhelmed by the bees and complained to the apartment-building manager.

Turkmenilli is as confused by this as anyone. "How did they get there? Where did they come from?" she said on WABC. "I was shocked."

The bees have been safely transported to a beefarm—along with the 17 honeycombs they had produced in the ceiling. The beekeepers who removed the bees had to use a thermal imaging camera to find all of the insects hiding in Turkmenilli's apartment.